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Bomb at Baghdad pet market kills 13
Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:07am ET

By Paul Tait

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb hidden in a box containing birds killed 13 people and wounded 57 at a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, Iraqi police said.
Police said four policemen were among the wounded in the bombing at the crowded Ghazil pet market.

It was one of the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital in weeks and could dent new-found confidence among Iraqis that security in the capital is getting better.

Levels of violence have been falling across Iraq in the past two months, with the U.S. military saying attacks were down by 55 percent since a "surge" of 30,000 extra U.S. troops became fully deployed in mid-June.

Something approaching normal life has been starting to return to Baghdad with the lull in bloodshed. Thousands of Iraqis have also been returning home after fleeing the violence.
Ordinary Iraqis have been going to markets and to restaurants at night, both unheard of at the height of the violence after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 unleashed waves of sectarian killings.

The pet market, a popular weekend spectacle, sells a raucous, colorful range of creatures from guard dogs and monkeys to parrots, pigeons and tropical fish.